fál

See also: fal, Fal, FAL, fàl, and fäl

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fˠɑːl̪ˠ/, /fˠɑːlˠ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fál (fence, hedge, enclosure),[2] from a Proto-Celtic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wel- (to turn, wind, roll), see also Latin vallum (wall), Saterland Frisian Waal (wall, rampart, mound), Dutch wal (wall, rampart, embankment), German Wall (rampart, mound, embankment), Swedish vall (mound, wall, bank).

Noun

fál m (genitive singular fáil, nominative plural fálta)

  1. hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row), fence (barrier)
  2. wall, barrier
  3. enclosure, field
Declension
Declension of fál (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fál fálta
vocative a fháil a fhálta
genitive fáil fálta
dative fál fálta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fál na fálta
genitive an fháil na bhfálta
dative leis an bhfál
don fhál
leis na fálta
Derived terms
  • fálaigh (fence, enclose; lag; hedge, verb)
  • fálach (fenced, fence-like; barrier-like, protective, adjective)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fálaid (to hedge, fence, verb),[3] from fál (fence, hedge, enclosure, noun).

Verb

fál (present analytic fálann, future analytic fálfaidh, verbal noun fáladh, past participle fálta)

  1. alternative form of fálaigh (fence, enclose; lag; hedge)
Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of fál
radical lenition eclipsis
fál fhál bhfál

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 104
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fál”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fálaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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